diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e9c9941..61ce093 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 /v1.2.0.tar.gz
 /v1.2.1.tar.gz
 /v1.3.0.tar.gz
+/mailnag-python3-migration-20191029.zip
diff --git a/mailnag.spec b/mailnag.spec
index c0cf550..0b2e22e 100644
--- a/mailnag.spec
+++ b/mailnag.spec
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
+%global dailysnapshot 20191029
+
 Name:           mailnag
-Version:        1.3.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Version:        1.3.1
+Release:        0%{?dist}.py3migration.%{dailysnapshot}.1
 Summary:        Mail notification daemon
 
 License:        GPLv2
-URL:            https://github.com/pulb/%{name}
-Source0:        https://github.com/pulb/%{name}/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
-
-# python3 won't work (as of 1.3.0)
-Requires:       python2
-Requires:       pygobject2
-Requires:       python2-gstreamer1
-Requires:       python2-pyxdg
+#URL:            https://github.com/pulb/%{name}
+#Source0:        https://github.com/pulb/%{name}/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz
+URL:            https://github.com/pulb/mailnag/tree/python3-migration
+Source0:        mailnag-python3-migration-%{dailysnapshot}.zip
+
+Requires:       python3
+Requires:       python3-dbus
+Requires:       python3-gobject
+Requires:       python3-gstreamer1
+Requires:       python3-pyxdg
 Requires:       gnome-keyring
-Requires:       python2-dbus
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  python2-devel
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  gettext
 BuildRequires:  desktop-file-utils
 BuildRequires:  libappstream-glib
@@ -27,23 +30,22 @@ creates a proper GNOME 3 notification that mentions sender and subject.
 
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
-
-# sooner or later python3 might be the default in Fedora; be prepared
-sed -i 's_#!.*/usr/bin/env.*python.*_#!%{_bindir}/python2_' $(find . -name '*.py')
+%setup -q -n mailnag-python3-migration
+# make python3 explicit
+sed -i 's_#!.*/usr/bin/env.*python.*_#!%{_bindir}/python3_' $(find . -name '*.py')
 
 %build
-%py2_build
+%py3_build
 
 %install
 rm -rf %{buildroot}
-%py2_install
+%py3_install
 desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/applications/mailnag.desktop
 desktop-file-validate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/applications/mailnag-config.desktop
-appstream-util validate-relax --nonet $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/appdata/*.appdata.xml
+appstream-util validate-relax --nonet $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/metainfo/*.appdata.xml
 
 # fix "non-executable-script" errors
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{python2_sitelib}/Mailnag -name '*.py' | xargs chmod 755
+chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{python3_sitelib}/Mailnag/{__init__.py,common/imaplib2.py}
 
 %find_lang %{name}
 
@@ -51,13 +53,16 @@ find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{python2_sitelib}/Mailnag -name '*.py' | xargs chmod 755
 %doc AUTHORS LICENSE NEWS README.md
 %{_bindir}/%{name}*
 %{_datadir}/%{name}
-%{_datadir}/appdata/
-%{python2_sitelib}/Mailnag
-%{python2_sitelib}/%{name}-%{version}-*.egg-info
+%{_datadir}/metainfo/
+%{python3_sitelib}/Mailnag
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{name}-*-*.egg-info
 %{_datadir}/applications/*
 %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/%{name}*png
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Oct 29 2019 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@leemhuis.info> - 1.3.0-0.py3migration.20191029.1
+- switch to python3-migration snapshot, as python2 nears EOL in rawhide
+
 * Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.3.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e74e56d..c7194c8 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (v1.3.0.tar.gz) = b87a13712af8bc4650a7f64b602a03d6e1a3d2e508d384967e1b8b315c93e460983c879437ef5d661775c84db83193dfdd863be7080630ae99c5757736e0233d
+SHA512 (mailnag-python3-migration-20191029.zip) = 2b461d35b1338ff109a53deb8fd8df87b6b9d3b0ad6790a6e46fd5bf38de25f6bded08e08b5aafb65bb74d6903eaaba09ca712cd4d288a71cb65a2e26536ef9e